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64 VICTORIA, A. 1931 



Loudon. — This variety is quite productive, growth vigorous ; fruit of medium 

 size, and of good quality. Canes strong, quite hardy. Would probably stand shipping 

 well. 



Turner. — A strong vigorous grower, canes sucker freely. The fruit is of medium 

 size, and of fair quality, but too soft for distant shipment. It is a very hardy sort, 

 and succeeds where Cuthbert and Marlboro winter-kill. 



Miller's Red. — A strong, vigorous grower, and quite productive. Fruit large, 

 quality good, quite fiiin enough to ship well. Season about with the Marlboro'. 



Hansell. — Grov/th fairly vigorous ; fruit soft, small, quality good. Has not done 

 well here. ^ 



Older. — This is a vigorous-growing variety, producing large fruit of excellent 

 quality. The fruit is firm, and stands shipment well. This is one of the best of the 

 black-caps. 



Columbian. — The canes are hardy, vigorous, and cjuite prolific. The fruit is very 

 large, purple, of fair quality, and fairly firm. This fruit is of special value for 

 canning purposes. 



Shaffer's Colossal. — This is rather more vigorous than the Columbian. The fruit 

 is large, and the quality fair. It is also firmer than the Columbian, and is valuable 

 for canni-ng. 



Golden Queen. — A good yellow sort. The fruit is quite firm, and of good quality, 

 and stands shipment fairly well. The canes are vigorous, quite hardy, and prolific. 

 This variety, with Cuthbert, Marlboro, Shaffer's Colossal and Older, should be in 

 every collection. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH GARDEN PEASE. 



Eighty-two varieties of garden pease were planted May 17, in rows 4 feet apart. 

 There were two plots of each variety. One plot was pulled and the quantity of 

 marketable green pease with pods weighed. The other was allowed to ripen and the 

 quantity of ripened seed obtained. The seed was planted li inches deep and 2 inches 

 apart in the rows. Each plot was one row 66 feet long. 



The land had tomatoes on it as a previous crop. It had no manure for that crop, 

 but was manured the previous year for vegetables. It was ploughed in the fall of 1899 

 and worked up in the spring of 1900, with the spring-tooth harrow. Fertilizer at the 

 rate of 150 pounds per acre was scattered along the rows, before the seed was planted, 

 and worked in when covering the seed. 



The Pea Aphis (Nectarophora destructor) was again troublesome. It appeared 

 about July 29, but remained only a short time, and did not do nearly as much damage 

 as it did last season. 



The following yields were obtained, and notes taken of the character of growth : — 



